Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

Helpful Answers has been used to record over 6 MILLION times on more than 2,000 forums. If you're not using HA your users are looking for it!

Every day your users contribute hundreds if not thousands of posts making it hard for new members and guests to separate out the best answers from those that are less helpful. The Helpful Answers System offers your members a quick way to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the value of each post.

Designed to be flexible, HA has over 30 configurable settings:

• Use image or text ratings AJAX or traditional links.
• Offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• Turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• Decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• Audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• Ban specific members from using the system.
• Customize the message shown after a post is rated.
• Show a page with the top helpful posts.
• Show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Hide posts that rate "too low"
• Template driven so you can customize it all for your forum.

For advanced users template conditionals and variables let you further extend the functionality to color highlight good or bad posts, include ratings in user?s profiles and much more.

Modification Installation [Must Read]:

Step 1: Upload the addon files found in the upload/ folder to your forum directory
Step 2: Install the plugin through your vB Administration area
Step 3: Configure settings & enable the mod in individual forums

You must configure settings & enable forums before voting will show up.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):

By default this addon will pass basic rating data (positive or negative) to a 3rd party site for statistical purposes. Only the most basic data is captured (the vote and your site name) and no user information or specific forum details are logged, not even an IP address. You can disable this through the admin.

Mod Philosophy -- Drive Your Own Success:

All of my mods are inspired by my work in digital marketing and are designed to drive registrations, interaction or other engagement activities the core platform does not address.

Each is designed to fit a general need by providing a starting point but it's on you to decide how to make things work to their best possible outcome. Feel free to suggest what you'd like to see next but don't wait to have what everyone else has; figure out what your forum needs and customize away.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SᴩiDᴇЯ

Firstly i will publicly apologize to ted so i am sorry ted i got up set, but i do need help.
Secondly to the lastsuperman i will ask the questions in a correct and proper manner from now of on, i apologize for my bad manners.

So what's the issue? The more specific you are, the better we can dial in on your issue.

[nerbert]

I don't know it this has been dealt with already. There's a bug in the helpful_answers template -- no third argument when you display good and bad ratings. Near the top change code to read as follows

<vb:if condition="$post['totalrank']">
	{vb:rawphrase helpfulanswer_x_out_of_y,{vb:raw post.goodrank},{vb:raw post.totalrank},{vb:raw post.badrank}}
</vb:if>

{vb:raw post.badrank} is missing from the argument list.

[SᴩiDᴇЯ]

The issue is fixed and the mod is working now, i had someone look at the plugin and fix the issue: http://screensnapr.com/v/Svn2Ld.png now working on vB 4.1.4

If you want to see it Live go here: http://WFreedom.com

Thank you Ted.

[Poker Face]

Installed 4.1.5

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SᴩiDᴇЯ

The issue is fixed and the mod is working now, i had someone look at the plugin and fix the issue: http://screensnapr.com/v/Svn2Ld.png now working on vB 4.1.4

If you want to see it Live go here: http://WFreedom.com

Thank you Ted.

Let me guess, they read the instructions & enabled the option in the forum you were viewing?

To be clear for anyone else looking at this thread, there are no known bugs with vB 4.x showing this mod with several thousand sites reporting in daily.

[radiofranky]

I just want to place it on "SHOWTHREAD" bar. See my previous attached screen shoot.

thanks

Originally Posted by Ted S

{vb:raw post.totalrank} is a post related variable, so it won't work in SHOWTHREAD which only grabs the total thread variables.

What are you hoping to show? The total number of votes for a thread?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by radiofranky

I just want to place it on "SHOWTHREAD" bar. See my previous attached screen shoot.

thanks

Your last post has a screenshot... but there's no indication of what data in it should be coming from this mod. Maybe the / 11? Doesn't give much insight...

This is a post mod so no information exists for the thread view, although you can easily grab it. You would need to alter the showthread.php script or corresponding plugins to run a new query grabbing the sum of totalrank on that post_id.

something like.... select sum(helpfulanswers.totalrank) from helpfulanswers where post_id = $XXX

[danicamps]

Hi, I think I may be trying to do the same thing as Radiofranky
My end goal is to have the total rank display on the forum display - the full list of threads. I have attached a screen shot for clarification, but essentially, I would like to have the total number of votes showing on the forum homepage in either the Replies/Views column or in the Title/Thread Starter Column.
Thank you in advance!
Best,
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[Poker Face]

How, can I get some padding around this mod, in post that do not have Titles?

example (with post title)



and (without)



very messy this way!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Poker Face

How, can I get some padding around this mod, in post that do not have Titles?

The mod floats a div to make this work. You can nest it in a parent element, remove the margin / padding as you see fit.

Just search for the helpful_answers template and go from there.